True, much simpler. I guess a larger reason would be that 7+ years of using wget has wired me to its commandline. I'm so used to typing `wget -c "<middle-click>"` or something on the command line, that I just never considered creating aliases for alternatives.

'co' is already taken though :-)

Alright,

alias wget='curl -O'

With what? I've got no such alias here.

co and ci are the old RCS commands, and they're why you can do "cvs co" and "cvs ci" with CVS.

Maybe he aliases that to a vcs checkout command, like 'svn co'?